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For Kamryn's sake...

As the Ottawa Citizen's Wayne Scanlan notes, Kamryn Rose Draper's diaperless visit with the Stanley Cup was not the only time that the Cup's been used as a recipient of something other than beer or champagne:

July 17, Ottawa Citizen: It has been used as a dog bowl, cereal bowl, ice cream bowl and fish bowl. Former Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman apparently showered with it and former Colorado Avalanche defenceman Sylvain Lefebvre used the Cup to baptize his daughter.

At least twice the Cup has ended up at the bottom of celebrating players' swimming pools, including those belonging to Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado's Patrick Roy.

In 1994, Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin ate from the Stanley Cup. When Larry Robinson returned to his home in Marvelville as head coach of the Stanley Cup-winning New Jersey Devils in 2000, he also allowed a cow to eat hay from the trophy.

The Cup was paraded around strip clubs in Edmonton in 1987 and New York City in 1994 following championship victories by the Oilers and Rangers, respectively.

Back in the early days, the Cup was often lost or left behind. After winning the Cup in 1924, several members of the Montreal Canadiens left the Cup at the side of the road after fixing a flat tire en route to a team party.

In 1906, a photographer taking pictures of the championship Montreal squad used the award as a vase for flowers. The photographer's mother continued to use the Cup as a vase for geraniums for weeks until the embarrassed club came back looking for it. A year earlier, when the Ottawa Silver Seven owned the trophy, a member of the team attempted to kick the Cup across the Rideau Canal. It didn't make it and remained on the frozen ice overnight before being retrieved.

Nobody seems to mention that Red Kelly had admitted that his infant son had a little accident with the Cup back in the 60's...

ESPN's Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg are freaking out about Kamryn's incident in their "News of the Weird" segment, too.

Kay, if the concept that thousands and thousands of people have swapped Stanley Cup spit is not gross, but the idea of a baby doing what babies do when they're not eating or sleeping is somehow more disgusting than horses and cows eating from the Cup, or a schvitzy night at the strip club...I think it says more about the people getting grossed out than the stuff that happens to the communal Holy Grail that is the Stanley Cup itself.

Soap and hot water kill just about every germ there is, as do rubbing alcohol and most hand sanitizers (some of which contain ethanol, seriously), and if that and some silver polish isn't enough to stop you from pausing and saying, "No, thanks" if you're ever invited to drink from the Cup, bummer for you.